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03 September 2007

Challenges To (or Perils of) Empirical Research

Over at MoneyLaw Jeff Harrison (Florida) shares some of the challenges incident to his desire to study, empirically, "the scholarly productivity of graduates of elite schools with that of graduates of non elite schools." If nothing else, his musings perhaps remind us anew that, in the world of empirical legal scholarship, precious little comes easily.